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  • White House Misspells Brazilian Leader’s Name, Bumps Visit With Obama to Saturday

    03/13/2009 10:25:37 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 94 replies · 3,690+ views
    Associated Press ^ | March 13 2009 | Bradley Brooks
    Rio de Janeiro (AP) - His meet-and-greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name. But when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes the first Latin American leader to sit down with President Barack Obama this weekend, he brings undisputed clout. Silva runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy and has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba. Even...